Posted on 06/10/2012 9:00:28 PM PDT by texas booster
BTTT
I recently broke into the top 100 list of the group! My HP desktop running Windows 7 folds 24/7, and I just starting folding on the wife’s old laptop with Ubuntu Linux.
Actually, I just found my forgotten name on this list: http://vspx27.stanford.edu/cgi-bin/main.py?qtype=teampage&teamnum=36120
OK, I’m back up and running under my FR name. However, my system has changed: I’m now Win 7 (x86 version) instead of XP. I find that FAH is bogging down Firefox (so I assume it’s bogging down everything) because it’s not bogged down when I pause FAH. What setting do you think I need to diddle with?
Thanks for the update. I stopped a while back when a new version of the client started acting up. Maybe it’s about time to check the latest version and see how it works out.
Texas, thanks for taking your time posting this, I’ve been Folding steadily, but I was starting to think about deleting FAH from my machines.
I have never gotten the GPU Folder to work, my video cards just aren’t powerful enough to make a real difference and I never could get the GPU Folder to run as a service.
I’ve still managed to accumulate 5M+ points using the CPU Folders on 3 machines. The last time I looked at my score, it was somewhere over 2M.
I probably should look to see if there have been improvements or changes to the setup that I should incorporate.
I’ve never had F@H bog down even the slowest machine. There may be some other settings to check. I have had a couple of machines that would overheat at 100% of CPU that required some limits.
In general, in setup you can limit the percentage of CPU time or the number of cores to use on a multicore machine.
Its been a while since I did it, maybe others could chime in with more help. If we knew a little about your setup, it would be easier to give precise answers.
I’m still folding! Have moved up from 127 to 86 in our team.
It’s kind of fun to participate as I did in SETI at home. Other then wasting electricity anybody document any of these projects accomplishing anything worhwhile?
CPU: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core Processor
From FAH’s “System Info” tab
Memory: 2.00 GiB
Free memory: 901.86MiB
Opened programs are quite bogged down until I pause FAH. Then, everything returns to normal.
“Did you ever get a new video card from NVidia or ATI?”
Nope, last time I tried, (a couple of years ago), the card fried the motherboard (or CPU, don’t know which). Had to get a new system which is folding fine - not gonna try messin’ with it, lol.
Haven’t seen you on the state board in a long time. Maybe you could get a few more folders there.
FReegards,
RT
I forgot:
My video card is NVidia GeForce 9500 GT
The F@H team is working to rewrite the code to make it faster. I stuck a cheaper NVidia into an old system and it pumps out a few hundred points per day.
Wait about 4 months and you may get to reinstall it all, for a decent speed boost.
While SETI was fun, the goals of F@H are more modest - push the boundaries of biomedical science in a real and tangible way.
The link above has a list of the 96 currently published peer-reviewed papers.
At some point, each person makes their choice about the balance between their electric bill and folding.
I will gladly donate $10 per month in power if one day I know that my efforts helped save someone’s loved one.
Try lowering the utilization percentage for F@H to 70% or so.
I now run only the console version. It hides itself and I don't even notice it - and I am running 7 independent F@H cores.
The only time I ever see a conflict is when I play certain old games that need a DOSbox. Then I pause the GPU folding.
If you go to F@H's site you'll find more info, such as the following:
Go browse around - you can also grab the latest client for your system at the site.
Happy Folding!
Thanks for the info.
I try to hit the Folding Forum every so often, but can get lost there digging through the voluminous info they’ve culled from around the world. It truly is a world-wide undertaking. Cheers.
I’m using FAH version 7.1.52 that I just downloaded.
Strange: After running 20%+ of the units on both cores, everything is suddenly now normal. No lag. Crazy. Problem solved, I guess. I hope.
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